KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent, CMC – The St. Vincent and the Grenadines government, on Monday night, reduced the number of fatalities resulting from an accident in which a bus carrying several school children plunged into the sea. The Ministry of Health ...
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Ruling Party Dismisses Warning From England’s High Commissioner To Guyana
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – The ruling People’s Progressive Party (PPP) on Monday, dismissed a warning from Britain that Guyana risks being referred to the Commonwealth Ministerial Action Group, after the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) country suspended Parliament in November, last year. ...
Read More »Falling Oil Prices Threaten Fragile African Economies
Photo above is of soldiers patrolling an oil field in Paloug, in South Sudan’s Upper Nile state. Photo credit: Jared Ferrie/IPS. By Thalif Deen IPS Correspondent UNITED NATIONS, New York (IPS) – The sharp decline in world petroleum prices – ...
Read More »Torontonians Against Carding 47% To 42%
TORONTO, Ontario – A new Mainstreet Technologies poll finds 54% of Torontonians believe crime in the City of Toronto is increasing, though almost half are against the controversial practice of ‘carding’. With 2,320 respondents, the poll has a margin of ...
Read More »Ontario Judge Doubts Couples’ 2010 Slashing Story In Jamaica
ONTARIO, Canada, CMC – A judge in a Canadian court says he cannot determine whether Paul Martin, a schoolteacher, slashed his wife’s throat while on vacation in Jamaica in 2010, or whether she attacked him first and ended up injured. ...
Read More »We Have So Much To Learn From Cuba
By Robert F. Kennedy Jr Guest Columnist This is the first of three articles written by Robert F. Kennedy – son of late U.S. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy and nephew of President John F. Kennedy – which address relations ...
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